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Creative COW Newsletter

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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Articles / Tutorials :: Industry News :: Hot Threads :: COW Tipping :: Upcoming Events :: Featured :: This Week's Jobs

Apple Automator for Final Cut Pro

Apple Automator is a tiny application included with Mac OS X with big power. It quickly and easily creating custom workflows based on the work you actually do - no programming required. Its the perfect way to handle those pesky repetitive tasks in FCP. Do something once, then let Automator take it from there. This handy little tool can make the difference between keeping and losing your sanity -- and making or missing your deadline. Read more...



CalDigit



COW Master Series Training DVD's
Zaxwerks Invigorator TrainingZaxwerks Invigorator Training
The Fusion of Adobe After Effects and Zaxwerks Invigorator, Vol. 1
$49.95

For the very first time: complete training for Zaxwerks Invigorator, the leading plug-in for 3D model creation inside Adobe After Effects. Want to build 3D models inside AE? This is what you're looking for. Even if you've got no 3D modeling experience whatsoever, you'll see how easy 3D in After Effects can be, and how great it can look. Hosted by longtime power user and Creative COW leader Serge Hamad, this DVD is the perfect step-by-step guide to getting the most out of Zaxwerks Invigorator running inside Adobe After Effects.

View all COW Training DVD's at CreativeCOWTraining.Com



Adobe Event



Recent Articles
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, CreativeCow leader Aharon Rabinowitz returns to the subject of Audio (Workflow tips #8) and shares a tip for working with audio waveforms that he got from an AE user via email.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Sony Vegas
If you read the review of Excalibur 4.5 from Jim Harvey in 2005, you know that he liked the plug in very much. So much so that he gave it the full 5 cows. So it will come as no surprise that Jim likes the newest edition as well. In this review, Jim points out that there are some very nice and useful additions to the toolset that will interface seamlessly with the new Vegas Pro 8 editing package.
Jim Harvey
Broadcast Design
Fix it in post? This article shows how to BUILD it in post. Here in April, as March Madness ends and the NBA Playoffs begin, the Cows Bill ONeill shows how he combined greenscreen, 2D graphics and 3D compositing in a remarkable promo for Big Ten basketball. This Web Extra from Bills article in the Cow Magazines Commercials issue shows you rough edits along the way, and shares some of the production secrets for building an entire world in post.
Bill Oneil
Event Videographers
Who doesnt love high quality stuff? Let Creative Cow Contributing Editor Stephen Smith be your maitre D. Hell provide a menu that will show you some of the best places to get video, photo and audio assets that will benefit every media professional.
Stephen Smith
Adobe Flash
In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Tony Ross, you will add the rain to the cityscape via Photoshop. You will use a series of filters in Photoshop to create a single image to import into Flash, then create a 4-frame rain loop that can be animated at any angle. In addition you will add sound and lightning FX in Flash to complete the illusion of a thunderstorm. This is the last of a 3 part series, animating a rainy cityscape in Flash.
Tony Ross
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, CreativeCow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you an often-missed feature in AE that can help you when trying to create transparency in an image by using the layers below as the source of that transparency.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2)
What do filmmakers do in their time? They make films. The horror movie P2 has just been released on DVD, but when Doug Spice and team at Psychic Bunny saw the original trailer for the theatrical release, all they could think about was their cuddly little Panasonic HVX200. Heres a playful look at what happened when the two came together, with a few shooting and workflow tips for good measure.
Doug Spice
Apple Final Cut Pro
Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the worlds most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, hes compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shanes Stock Answers. We call them the information you really need for working with FCP. Here in Part 3, he covers QuickTime issues, timecode management, P2 tips and much more, including one of the most frequently questions of all: how to open new projects in older versions of FCP.
Shane Ross

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



G-Tech



Industry News
Music 2 Hues releases a new addition to its Flagship Series production music line.

Inlet Technologies Wins Digital Content Producer Pick Hit Award

FTI Introduces SmartWhite Printable Surfaces for Optical Disc Media Products

Royalty Music Solution Rocks at Beatsuite.com!

Click 3X Gives Jamie Lidell Another Day

D7 Inc. Posting 4K Project Using Revolutionary New Red Camera And Maxx Digital EVO HD Sata Array



Panasonic


Adobe Announces New Acrobat Connect Pro

Avid Introduces Next-Generation RAID Solutions

Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive Named Hall of Fame Solution for NASCAR Media Group

Sound Lounge Goes a Lap for Nascar

Filmmaker's Loss Gains Attention

Weekend Box Office Winner "Iron Man" Keep Color Consistent with 3cP

cmiVFX Launches New Cinema 4D Cloth System Dynamics Training Video

Boomer Labs Release MAX2AE Version 3.0

Harris Corporation Wins Fifth Saudi Television Contract for Integrated HD Broadcast System

DAZ 3D’s Hexagon 2.5 Delivers Enhanced Toolset for Detailed 3D Content Creation

BOND Edit Cuts Two New Music Videos

Class On Demand Garners Another 2 Telly Awards For Outstanding Training

Aviom Hits A High Note For “American Idol”

Moving Pixels & Nick Piper Draft for Coors Light and Nascar

Headlight Gets Animated for Chellomedia

Adobe and Industry Leaders Establish Open Screen Project

Iconix HD-RH1F Enables The3DFirm to Create Stereo 3D Film for Reebok

TriCaster BROADCAST™ Serial Digital Portable Production System is Now Shipping

Broadcast Pix’s Slate 5000 2 M/E Live Integrated Production System Wins Broadcast Engineering’s Pick Hit Award




For more industry news, visit the COW News & Press Releases forum



Thought Equity



Hot Threads
Adobe After Effects Forum
Polaroid SX70 effect?
I've been trawling the net to find a way of getting the polaroid SX70 'look' and there's plenty of stuff out there for faking a polaroid frame...

Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Final Cut Pro - is it right?
I've been editing with Adobe Premiere for some time. Life wouldn't be the same for me without After Effects as well. It seems to achieve everything I need. Suddenly I've been hit with folks asking whether I used Final Cut Pro.

Event Videographers Forum
Groom didn't turn mic on
After the wedding I tried to pull the audio off of the recorder, but its not there. The audio is there from me explaining to him how to start the recorder, but nothing after that.

AJA Kona Forum
Stable Software for Kona 3/Final Cut Studio 2
Does anyone have a good, stable combination of software for operating Final Cut Studio 2 with a Kona 3 card?



LaCie



COW Tipping
Creative Cow Hall of Fame

Ever wonder who the top posters are around Creative Cow or who has written the most articles? We are now displaying Creative Cow's top contributors who have made themselves and their wisdom available for the rest of the community throughout the years.

A special thanks to all of those who continue to support the many professionals who frequent our forums, blogs, library, and many other areas of Creative Cow.

View the Creative Cow Community Hall of Fame here... More features and categories coming in the near future!



Sonnet



Upcoming Events
May 8, '08 -
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Bay Area Modo Users Group Mountain View
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May 14, '08 -
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Marketing Your Media with Web 2.0 San Francisco
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May 15, '08 -
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Red Cam One Demonstration - MPA May Meeting Farmington Hills
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View more events at events.creativecow.net



Dulce



Featured Leader
Meet Craig Meadows!
Craig Meadows

As for my bio, hmm, lets see: Craig Meadows - age 49 Film club in high school Television/film major in college B.A. Communications - University of West Florida 1982 Worked at some TV stations Founded Florida Production Group, Inc. in 1985, been here ever sin more...
Featured Tutorial
Layer Mapping in Invigorator

Serge Hamad demonstrates the technique of layer mapping in Zaxwerks Invigorator. This tutorial assumes that you have some previous exposure to the plug-in. If you don't have the plug-in, download the more...

Get help with, or discuss this tutorial in the COW's Adobe After Effects Forum.



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